Display-box.



H. WALDES.

DISPLAY BOX.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 24. .1913.

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HEINRICH WALD-ES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-BOX.

Application filed November 24, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH WALDES, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, whose post-ofiice address is 137 Fifth avenue, in said city, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a box or receptacle in which the cover of the same may be folded at the rear behind the box proper to act as a brace for the box and hold it in an upright or practically upright position in order to display its contents. Boxes of this type have heretofore been constructed to produce these results, but in order to permit the cover to pass behind the box to act as a brace and hold it upright, the cover must be cut away at the rear, the thickness of the box increasing the width of this cut-away portion. This cut-away portion leaves a portion of the box uncovered and this uncovered portion is generally filled in by a solid piece of wood or a box-like card board form, the sides of this box acting as an anchorage for the hinges. It will, therefore, be seen that the wider the cut-away portion of the cover is to allow the cover to pivot clear to the rear of the box, the wider will have to be the filling-in piece, thereby gecreasing the containing capacity of the The object, therefore, of this invention is to produce a box of this type in which a very small cut-away portion at the rear of the box is necessary, regardless of the depth or thickness of the box, this, therefore, necessitating only a small filling-in piece, and thereby allowing the box a practically full containing capacity.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perpsective view of my improved display box; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the rear portion of the box, showing the method of hinging the cover; Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional view on the line-33 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrows and Fig. 4: is a perspective view of a portion of the box with the cover raised showing the box like structure.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 2d, 1915.

Serial No. 802,606.

Similar reference characters indicate cor responding parts throughout the several views.

My invention consists of a box 1 of any desired form with a cover 2 having side strips 3. At the rear of the cover is a cutaway portion 4, and at the rear of the box is a box-like structure 5 for the purpose of filling in the open space left by the cut-away portion of the cover, and in the ends of this box 5 are vertical slots 6. Mounted in the side strips 3 of the cover 2, at the rear, near the upper edge, are pins 7 and washers 8 and 9, or eyelets, these pins or eyelets extending through the side strips of the cover and sliding in the slot 6.

From the foregoing, the operation of my invention will be readily understood. The cover is lifted back in the usual way, the pins 7 remaining at the top of the slots 6, until the end of the cut-away portion touches the end of the box, and then the cover is drawn directly downward until the pins 7 reach the bottom of the slots 6, and then the cover can be readily folded behind the box as shown in Fig. 2.

What I claim is:

1. In a display device, a box, a cover therefor, pivots on said cover, the box having slots in its sides near one end thereof allow ing the pivots to move laterally of the box, a portion of the cover at the rear thereof being cut away and a filling-in piece at the rear of the box covering said cut-away portion.

2. In a display device, a box, a cover therefor, pivots at the rear ends of the side strips of the cover, said box having vertical slots in its side near one end, said pivots mounted in said slots and adapted to move vertically therein, the rear portion of the cover being cut away to allow the same to be moved to the rear of the box and act as a brace for the same.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 20th day of November, 1913.

HEINRICH WALDES.

Witnesses ALBERT BLUHM, SIGMUND BARCLY.

Copies oi this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington. D. 0. 

